performances, further confusing just what to make of their "message". Todd Gitlin described the speeches as "a public rite to exorcise the Weathermen's last doubts." Other activities During the War Council, the WUO held a number of communal activities, including sessions of karate practice, and singing from the "Weatherman songbook," which replaced the lyrics of popular songs with revolutionary messages. One example was "White Riot," sung to the tune of "White Christmas," and containing the lyrics, "I'm dreaming of a white riot/ Just like the one October 8 [referencing the "Days of Rage" in Chicago]/ When the pigs take a beating/ And things start leading/ To armed war against the state." At night, there was a party atmosphere, with dancing, a "good deal of free-for-all sexual activity," and discreet drug use (discretion was required because the WUO did not want to give the police a reason to raid the War Council). Attendees Around 300 people attended the War Council. Among the groups represented, besides the WUO, were the Detroit White Panthers, the Bay Area Collective, and RYM II. According to the FBI, the following people "are known to have attended this convention": Karen Ashley William Ayers Kathie [sic] Boudin Jeffrey Blum Robert Burlingham David Camp Peter Clapp Edith Crichton Mona Cunningham Marc Dinsmore Brian Flanagan Laura Foner John Fuerst Lynn Raye Garvin David Gilbert Theodore Gold Joyce Greenways Leonard Handlesman Phoebe Hirsch John Jacobs Naomi Jaffe Jeff Jones Michael Junstesen David Klafter Nancy Kurshan Karen Latimer Jonathon Lerner Connie Long (Ullman) Howard Machtinger Jeffrey Melish James Mellen Raymond Moser Russel Neufeld Diana Oughton Jed Proujansky Eleanor Raskin Natalee Rosenstein Mark Rudd Marguerite Smith Michael Speigel Jane Spielman Barry Stein Malorie Tolles Robert Tomaschavsky Clayton Van Lydegraf Mary Wozniak References Weather Underground Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War 1969 in Michigan